Proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself, a cold will hang on for a week.

Don't be a novelist --- be a statistician. Much more scope for the imagination.

A well-wrapped statistic is better than Hitler's 'big lie'; it misleads, yet it cannot be pinned on you.

A difference is a difference only if it makes a difference.

It is dangerous to mention any subject having high emotional content without hastily saying where you are for or agin it.

It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there.

While you're waiting on opportunity, it might be waiting on you to come to it. Get up and go get it!

There is so much hope in a little flower and so many flowers in a little hope!

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

What have you come to Earth for?' 'I'm having difficulties with a flower,' the little prince said. 'Ah!' said the snake. And they were both silent.

Only those who feel little in the eyes of God, can hope to be mighty in the eyes of men.

We should be long past applauding politicians of any hue: they got us into this mess. The best deserve a probationary opportunity to prove themselves, the worst should be in jail.

Mature love is loving, not being loved.

I've been a military lawyer for 33 years. A member of al Qaeda or their affiliate group can be detained under a law of war as long as their threat to our nation without a trial.

A woman (Terri Schiavo) was healthy. There was brain damage, there was no question. But from a health point of view, she was not terminally ill.